Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious to the Dutch that if the Japanese had an easy time in Malaya, if they took the Philippines, then the Dutch islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra would be next on the list of the Mikado's Lord High Executioner. And first to fall would probably be Borneo, of which the Brookes' Sarawak is a small part...
...Cleveland a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado was called off.* Washington an opera company decided to go ahead with the show, but to explain in program notes that it depicts "the Japanese in the light that history now records - sly, wily and deceitful, unconscionably corrupt and treacherous...
...Concert Master: Gilbert and Sullivan, Mikado; Mendelssohn, Italian Symphony; Ezio Pinza recital...
Died. William Danforth, 73, roaring, scowling delight for half a century of U.S.' Savoyards; after long illness; in Skaneateles, N.Y. Triple-tonguing Songster Danforth estimated he had sung the title role in The Mikado 1,000 times...
Patter Songs from Gilbert & Sullivan (Nelson Eddy, baritone, with chorus and orchestra conducted by Robert Armbruster; Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). Baritone Eddy's fans-but not Savoyards-will forgive his rather apologetic, Yankeefied impersonations of the Mikado, Jack Point, the Lord Chancellor, John Wellington Wells, Major General Stanley, First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. The last one sounds like an odd, unconscious parody of President Roosevelt speechmaking...